Under the gun: pressure group politics surrounding Bill C-68, Canada's gun control legislation
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines the pressure group politics prevalent in the legislative process of Bill C-68. This case study titled, "Under the Gun: Pressure Group Politics Surrounding Bill C-68 in Canada," determines the effectiveness of lobbying strategies employed by key groups in relation to the level of influence exerted on the state elite during Bill C-68's legislative journey. This examination will describe that the environment in which Bill C-68 was formulated followed a pluralistic model. Pressure groups from both sides of the debate galvanized their positions to promote their interests to the media, the Canadian electorate, and most importantly to effect the political decisions of state actors. Although the level of contact by interest groups and level of consultation within the policy community was extraordinary and challenged the role of the government and the political will of its actors, the autonomy of the state was not jeopardized. Consequently, the author argues that political leadership supplemented by party discipline afforded this legislation safe passage through parliament and sufficient insulation for the state elite concerning pressure group influence.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".